In this long-awaited follow-up to his Academy
Award-nominated film CITY OF GOD (2003, Best
Director, Fernando Meirelles), producer Fernando
Meirelles (THE CONSTANT GARDENER) returns to the
Brazilian ""favelas" to tell an inspiring tale of
friendship and family on the gritty streets of Rio
de Janeiro. Growing up in a culture dictated by
violence and run by street gangs, teenagers
Acerola (Douglas Silva) and Laranjinha (Darlan
Cunha) have become close as brothers. With their
eighteenth birthdays fast approaching, Laranjinha
sets out to find the father he never met, while
Acerola struggles to raise his own young son. But
when they suddenly find themselves on opposite
sides of a gang war, the lifelong friends are
forced to confront a shocking secret from their
past.